A Study on Urban Planning Directions and Strategies Coping with Pandemic

Abstract

This study aims to propose urban planning directions and strategies that enable building urban space safe from transmissive disease like COVID-19. Through reviewing published articles and interviewing experts of various urban fields, this study derived fourteen planning considerations and reassembled them into five urban planning directions: accssibility, self-sustainability, smart technology, health, and prevention. Also, eighteen strategies covering the following seven urban planning areas were proposed: land use, traffic infrastructure, green infrastructure, public facility, medical facility, residential environment, and urban environment. This study contributes to providing comprehensive urban planning directions and strategies necessary for planning resilient cities in POST-COVID-19 era. Specifying the proposed strategies into different approaches, implementing necessary policy improvements, and conducting pilot projects are required to applicate the result of this study into actual urban planning stage.